The Tycoon's Rebel Bride by Maya Banks

Author:Maya Banks [Banks, Maya]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Anetakis, Category
ISBN: 9780373769445
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2009-05-11T23:00:00+00:00

Ten

“H e still plans to propose tonight?” Isabella asked in dismay. She held the phone tightly to her ear as she listened to Madeline.

Somehow she’d hoped that after last night Theron would have realized he felt something for her. Maybe not love. Not yet, but she’d thought he’d wake up to the attraction between them.Okay, maybe he wasn’t completely unaware, but he certainly seemed determined to ignore it.

She closed her eyes as she listened to Madeline confirm that according to Theron, the proposal was still on.

“Thanks, Madeline,” she said slowly.

She hung up the phone and sunk lower into the bed. Theron with Alannis. She just couldn’t imagine it. Theron needed…someone to shake him up, someone who wouldn’t let him get too serious and organized.

He needed someone like her.

Alannis wouldn’t challenge him. There was no spark of chemistry between them. Alannis may as well be his daughter for all the attraction that existed.

Maybe Theron wanted a comfortable, dull marriage.

She shook her head. No, she wouldn’t believe that, because if she did, then she’d have to give up, and she wasn’t ready to do that yet.

Reaching for the phone again, she dialed the number that Marcus had given her the night before.

“Marcus, hi, it’s Isabella,” she said when he answered.

“Isabella, how are you?” he greeted.

She sighed. “Word is the proposal is still on.”

“Sorry to hear that. I was certain he was ready to beat me into a pulp after our little act last night.”

“He frustrates me,” she said glumly. “I can’t figure the man out. He’s so controlled in all things except when he’s alone with me.”

Marcus laughed. “I can’t say I blame the man. I have a feeling you’d try the patience of a saint and the vows of a priest.”

“I don’t suppose you could get tickets to the opera tonight? I hate to ask, but I’m desperate. He and Alannis are going to the opera and then to an after-party at the hotel where he plans to pop the question.”

“I’m sure I could arrange it, but how do you plan to stop him from proposing?”

Isabella sucked in a deep breath. “I’m not sure,” she said softly. “But I’ll think of something.”

“I don’t suppose now would be a good time to admit that I hate the opera,” Marcus said with a laugh.

She smiled faintly. “I’m not much of a fan myself, but apparently, it’s Alannis’s favorite performance.”

“Then might I suggest an alternative?”

Her brow puckered, and she sat up in bed, the covers gathering at her waist. “What did you have in mind?”

“How about a date? You inform that security team of yours of your plans for the evening, that you’ll be out with me. I have no doubt that they report to Theron regularly.” Amusement threaded through Marcus’s voice. “It’ll drive him crazy that he’s stuck at the opera with Alannis, and he’ll have no idea what we’re up to, whereas if we’re both at the opera, he’ll be able to see us.”

“But what about the party and his plans to propose?”

“I’ll have you to the party before Theron arrives.

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